STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Stapleton man faces criminal charges after, police allege, he lied to his insurance company about where he crashed his car earlier this year.

Ryan Sullivan, 29, of the 600 block of Van Duzer Street, said in a $6,600 insurance claim to Allstate that he crashed his car on May 1 at 1 p.m. on the Staten Island Expressway, after he was cut off by another motorist and hit a guardrail, court papers allege.

In fact, he had crashed on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway at 2:10 a.m. April 28, when he was involved in a collision with another motorist's vehicle, court papers allege.

Sullivan later admitted that he lied because he was afraid to tell his mother the truth that he was in Brooklyn, a law enforcement source said.